- We were called out
recently by Shank Mods in his super popular Hot
Wheels PC modding video where he invited us to
work on a dumb idea. Put a 3090 in a Hot Wheels
chassis he offered as a present. Well, Christmas come early. Shank Mods is here and so is the hardware. There's just one problem. - This isn't a half-length card. - SmartDeploy! Now powered by pdq.com, SmartDeploy allows IT professionals to image and manage
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over what we wanna do versus the constraints of
this tiny 9.6 liter case that's gonna try to
stop us from doing that. First of all, this big graphics
card, where's it gonna go? - So, it's gonna be similar to how I had it on my other Hot Wheels PC. So we're gonna cut out a slit right here. This case is really beat up, so it's a good candidate for
doing lots of work on it. - Okay, so you have a spot for the 3090, but I'm guessing that the power supply that comes with this thing
isn't gonna be enough. - So the power supplies
from these Hot Wheels PCs are kind of infamous for
just getting toasted. We're gonna be using a different
setup for the power supply. We got two of these SFX power supplies, they're 650 watts each. So we're gonna take
these two power supplies, and we wanna turn this whole area here and use it for something else. So we're gonna take these power supplies and put 'em right up here along the top. - That's gonna fit - Like that. So they'll fit up top. - up above? - [Shank Mods] Yeah,
so we'll have these two at the very top of the case. Together, we're looking
at like 1300 Watts. - Hopefully that should be enough. So that brings me to what
other parts are we gonna use? - [Shank Mods] We're gonna
using a 5800X3D, the new one, this gigabyte mini ITX motherboard along with two sticks of ballistics RAM. - I couldn't help notice this
giant air cooler on here. - So this is just what we
have right now for kind of testing to make sure
the whole thing works, but we're gonna be running
a liquid cooling loop for everything.
- It is gonna be water cooled. - Yes, so the whole thing, the
GPU and the CPU were gonna be on a single loop. The case is actually
pretty easy to take apart, you just removed two
screws here at the top and then one in the bottom with this pretty sweet screwdriver - lttstore.soon. - So once you remove these two screws, the whole chassis-- - Oh my God. - Nope, it slides right out. - [James] Oh, she's dusty. - Ah yes. Yeah, this one's fresh. It doesn't work. - In your last video when you
revamped a Hot Wheels species, you basically just made
like a superpower version of most of the original kind of PC, right? - Yes, so for mine I tried
to keep the optical drive, the floppy drive and then I
stuffed it with two hard drives. But for this one, because we're cramming so much more power inside of it, - We're losing all of that. - Yeah, the airflow in the original case, we had two air intakes there
and then we had this grill here and that's all the air intake. By removing the floppy
drive and the optical drive, we're gonna get a lot
more airflow in the front which will help us cool
the much beef here, GPU. - Is that gonna be enough? Or should we think about
maybe widening these or maybe putting a hole on
the top or what do you think? - That's something I considered, but I really want to try to keep the case as close to original as possible, kind of keep the same aesthetic. The airflow you gain versus what you lose, - Like the spirit of the building. - I don't think it'd be worth it. - Being the Hot Wheels
connoisseur that Shank is, he brought multiple. So let's just use this one so it's easier to see
your plan for the cooling. Now, we emailed back and forth a bit and you had an original plan. - Yeah, so the original plan was this 80, this right here, we have
an 80 millimeter grill, and this is the only
exhaust on the entire PC. So my original plan was to run another 92 millimeter custom
loop here with a blow e Metron. There are 12 volt fans that
drop out four to five amps. That should do a good job cooling it. But the issue is it's really loud. (blow e Metron whirring) - There's another problem with it though, was that Linus was
actually really skeptical that that would even
be sufficient cooling. - So another plan we had was
to put more tiny blow e Metrons up here with another radiator,
with another radiator here and just have radiators
everywhere with blow e Metrons. But that would just be so loud. Aside from putting radiators all over it, me and Alex got to work,
brainstorming through a video call. Alex came up with the idea of trying to fit a bigger radiator by moving the power supplies. - How big are we talking, 120? - So 120 millimeters. So what I was able to do was I had those flex ATX power supplies. And if we mount them to the top, this clears up where the power supply was. Rather than using an 80 millimeter exhaust for the 92 millimeter rad,
we can cut this part out and have a 120 millimeter rad right here. - There's another thing, at
the top we were talking about how this is longer than a typical 3090. How are we gonna make this fit? - Fortunately, the Hot
Wheels PC itself has a bit of dead space. We're gonna have to cut
into the back of the frame and have a place for it to extrude a bit. And that will also provide support for the back of the graphics card. - Okay, so we've got
everything on an open air bench and right away I'm thinking
this 120 millimeter radiator is looking pretty thick compared to the tiny chassis
that needs to fit into. But what we're trying to
figure out right now is is this even sufficient cooling? So we have FurMark running
to tax the [James]U, we've got Prime95 running to tax the CPU, and we've got hardware info
open to monitor our attempts. And we're gonna see what
they end up plateauing at. Now you might say that this
isn't even a relevant test to do because it's an open air
bench and it's gonna be going into this completely, almost
completely closed off chassis. But what we want to know is, do we at least have some headroom here? If it doesn't thermal throttle on this, that means we have some room to play with. And maybe there's a chance in
hell that it'll work in here. But if it does thermal throttle on here, then we have to reinvent the wheel and think of another solution. 'Cause if it doesn't work
here, it's not gonna work here. Okay, so we have a cooling loop set up, and the game we're gonna play here is, does Linus think this
is sufficient cooling? - Oh my gosh, I can already
tell you probably not. - All right, so I'm gonna
aim the camera at it. You've got your water block 3090, you've got a 5800X3D in there, and-- - Wow, okay. - There's your rez, and this is your chungus,
thick, 120 millimeter rad. - That's a crossflow rad, so I can already tell you
you're giving up some there. - So what do you think the temps are? We've been running FurMark
for about 20 minutes, as well as Prime95. - Well, I can tell you I
think that [James]U is up in the 80 degree range. And then I think the CPU is
probably as high as 70 plus. - We got the FurMark here. - Shut up! (crew laughing) - 51 degrees after 26 minutes. - Really? Okay, this might just work then. Yeah, you might just pull this off. - (laughs) Daddy's proud. We're gonna modify this chassis to fit our 3090 in five steps. Step one is gonna be to clean out and empty out this whole thing. So it's more like this. That
means we're gonna have to drill out these rivets and pull out these cages. Next, we're gonna have to
drill a hole here for the GPU. That's step two, and step
three, the opposite side, 'cause remember the GPU has to stick out 'cause it's too long. Step four is gonna be cutting
a hole for our power supplies and then step five, cut a
hole for our big old radiator. But I actually have a lot of other stuff to do in my regular job. So I'm gonna get Tynan do this for me. - Oh, what? (upbeat music)
(vacuum cleaner whirring) (drill whirring) (upbeat music) - I originally used this
motherboard on my previous build, but there's a few issues
we're gonna have to solve to make this one work. This bracket right here interferes with this little extrusion, so we're gonna need to remove this plate. The other issue we have is right here because this is a permanently
a fixed IO shield, this but right against
this lip right here. So in order to make this
fit, we're gonna need to cut into the bed 'cause this
is where it's all mounted. (machine whirring)
(upbeat music) - So after taking out this initial cut and realizing that this
is kind of impractical, I just spent a little
bit of time cutting up what's going to be our back plate here with all of the cutouts for
power supplies, the [James]U as well as the IO shield and the radiator. And I'm about to cut out
one of our test pieces before trying to go on to
either our mill or our router to cut it out of a metal. I cut out a thicker piece
of acrylic that's also clear so we have an idea of what's going on. And also it's a lot more structural. And then the next thing
we wanna try to do is fit in the rad, which we already
know is gonna be not fun. - So the radiator's the biggest thing. So right here, there's not
enough space right here because of the cap right
there is bumping against it. So the screws posts
are barely not able to. - So we had a thought
that maybe we can get away with taking this cap off,
taking it off onto the Tormach and machining it flatter so
we have a lower profile bit, 'cause it has a nailing on
it so we can hand tighten it. And that might just
give us enough clearance to let it fit in. - Ready for more dumb idea? - Oh God. - [Shank] Instead of this, what if this? - Yeah. - [Shank] We had it kind of crooked. - [Tynan] Yep. - [Shank] So then it was
right up against there, that would give us more clearance for the [James]U and a little
bit more clearance there. So the only downside is it
would look a little crooked on the back of it, which-- - [Tynan] That's fine. - [Shank] Which is fine. - Yeah, we can totally do
that. I'll cut out another one. (upbeat music) (drill whirring) - Now that we've cut this hole
outta the front of the case for the back of the [James]U,
it should be able to fit. Can slide right into there
and click into place. And even though it is
extruding out of this part of the case slightly, it's
still within the range of that gap inside of there. So it'll fit right into the
dead space inside this case but outside of this
frame, so fits right in. (upbeat rock music) - Some breaking news, Shank
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big gaps between his videos, check him out on Floatplane
for extra goodies. Now back to the video. (car engine roaring) - This aluminum back plate
represents the crossing off of every list item. We've done it. - Yeah. - We've finished--
- At this point, yes. - Okay.
- Pretty much, yeah. - So now we have everything sitting like a pile of meat in the case loose. And once we put this on, then it'll all be mounted and secure. Then we can fill the loop and pray to whatever
existence is beyond us that this thing actually
still boots and works. So let's get this on. - All right, ready? So I'm gonna lift this up
and then push this part in. So then it fits then. - [David] Nice. - Okay. - Slides right in. - Okay, we got FurMark
going, Prime95 going. We're two minutes into this test, and we do not have the fan set to 100%. So we're hoping that's gonna be fine. - If not, we'll try setting it to a hundred and see how it goes then. - And how loud it is. - Yeah. - 23 minutes in, temps are stabilized. Tynan can you remind us what
the numbers were before? The CPU max before was? - So CPU max before was 68.8 degrees. - Now it's 81.6. The [James]U temp before was? - 52 degrees. - 52, the max now 64. - So hotter, but not
technically throttling - The CPU could be cooler. - Yeah. - I wouldn't wanna daily drive at 82, but I'm pretty happy with
the [James]U temp at 64. That's not that good. So let's ramp it up. - Yeah, so let's restart it,
- And do this all again. - go into the BIOS, crank the fan and see if it runs any better. - It's been 20 minutes
with the radiator found max and we dropped 10 degrees. lttstore.com ladies and gentlemen. 70 degrees on the CPU, and what is it? Bouncing around 54 on the [James]U. - Wow.
- Damn. - Yeah, not bad for so much
power in such a little case. In what, 9.4 liters, 9.6? - 9.6. - Less than 10. - [David] I can drink that in a day. - Oh yeah.
- But this is a gaming rig. So let's play some games. (upbeat music) - I feel terrible that
I missed all of this, but at least I get to see it now. - All right, you ready for this? - I'm ready to feel greater. Oh my God, it's amazing. You guys did up the Ostendo. What did you even do? Is this just the electrical tape? Oh, oh (beep) dog. Shut up. This might be the greatest
retro-themed gaming set up of all time. No, I'm serious. What could be better? We've got the Ostendo, basically what? How many of these even exist anymore? You have rear projection ultra
wide, the first ultra wide. We've got the one and only Hot Wheels PC. That's interesting. Well, it's Hot Wheels. Wait, the radiator's... You guys managed to get everything inside? Holy crap, is it ever? Can I open it up? It doesn't open up the
old way anymore, does it? - [James] Well, the problem is you'll see that these are rivets and not screws. - [Linus] Yes, I see that. - And the reason for that was because it's so tight in
there that if we use screws, we wouldn't be able to hold the nuts so that the nut didn't spin. And we couldn't even put nuts in. It's nutless. - No-nut Hot Wheels PC. I have to game on it. Oh Oh, okay, it's the actual Hot Wheels. I was hoping we had a modern
mouse with vinyl decals like you guys did on
these, but wait, what? You guys spray painted an
entire keyboard for this. - [James] Yeah, he didn't
even take the keys off, just bombed it - Just went for it. It took me this long to notice though. So stealthy. This is absolutely insane. What could be more glorious? Oh, I see. Oh, I see. Ooh, that's actually pretty sleek. Oh my gosh. The only thing I've ever
seen that gets close to this is Luke's Fallout Bomb PC. It's packed so tight,
front to back RTX 3090, fricking flex ATX power supply. - [James] There's two of them. - There's two. There's two? There's two! This may be the greatest
computer in existence. What, you don't believe me? Fine, show me a greater one. Prove it is greater. Is this custom? Did shank do this? Well, this is my favorite Xbox controller. Is it mine? - [David] No, I think he wants it back. - Oh crap, okay. Oh, that's fine. I would too. The maximum noise of it
isn't even that ridiculous. To be clear, it's not quiet,
but it's not loud in the ways that I might have expected. For example, those flex ATX power supplies are barely even contributing. It's just that knock to a
air mover industrial PPC fan that we've got in there. Kids, can you say 130 FPS at whatever weirdo resolution this is? It looks like garbage 'cause the image is so soft on this monitor,
but it's running great. I was big into the just black
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